Autonomous Cars

Autonomous vehicles, or AVs, are no longer a distant dream or science fiction—they're hitting roads, farms and factories worldwide as breakthroughs in artificial intelligence spark a commercial revolution across a $1.2 trillion industry. In a report shared with clients on Tuesday, Bank of America...

In an episode of Amazon's The Grand Tour, host Jeremy Clarkson stirred debate over how self-driving cars should respond in life-or-death situations. In a conversation with co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond, Clarkson posed a stark question: If an autonomous vehicle must decide between veering...

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk revealed on Friday that the company is developing a new feature allowing the car to autonomously identify and park in available spots. What’s the Feature? The upcoming feature will enable the car to recognize potential...

Electric vehicle leader Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) has dominated its sector and is looking to be a market leader in self-driving in the future. The company has drawn scrutiny from several government agencies over potential safety issues with its full self-driving. New accident footage may hurt the...

General Motors Co (NYSE: GM)-owned, self-driving taxi service Cruise’s unusual pit stop on a San Francisco street last week left onlookers in splits.  What Happened: A driverless Cruise-converted Chevy Bolt was pulled over by San Francisco traffic police officers.  The ...

Waymo's chief technology officer and its chief operating officer will serve as co-CEOs. What Happened: After spending almost more than five years at Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) self-driving-car company Waymo, its chief executive John Krafcik has...

Ford Motor Company's (NYSE: F) fourth quarter was not a good one. Stock sharply lowered on Wednesday, after the company reported earnings that fell short of expectations and gave weak guidance for the year ahead. Shares plunged 9 percent after results were announced on Tuesday after...

Though the average American home has 1.8 cars, and pretty much every consumer-facing business from coffee joints to drugstores offers drive-through services, could the American culture of private car ownership be coming to an end? Peak car is the hypothesis that private car ownership has reached...

Autonomic, a transportation architecture and technology provider, announced a partnership with Ayro, Inc., a manufacturer of electric light-duty vehicles for commercial and consumer markets. Together the companies will develop a range of services to enable mobility applications for Ayro's line of...

German original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) BMW Group and Daimler AG inked a partnership on July 4 for a long-term strategic cooperation in autonomous driving, focusing on jointly developing next-generation technologies for driver assistance systems, automated driving on highways, and self-...

Hours before self-driving start-up Drive.ai was scheduled to close its doors and lay off all of its staff, Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) swooped in to buy the company. Drive.ai, an autonomous driving shuttle service once valued at $200 million, is believed to have been purchased by Apple for less than...

The Detroit Mobility Lab announced Thursday that it’s picked the Boston Consulting Group as the strategic advisory partner in the development of the Michigan Mobility Institute, a talent organization for the sector. An opportunity exists for Detroit and the state to be the nexus of the...

Uber is halting tests of its autonomous vehicles after an overnight collision left one pedestrian dead. Police in Tempe, Arizona, are investigating the crash and said an Uber car in autonomous mode struck a woman who walked into the street outside of the crosswalk, according to KNXV-TV. A safety...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) will rent half a dozen cars from Hertz Global Holdings, Inc (NYSE: HTZ) subsidiary Donlen, reported Bloomberg. The information was obtained from California Department of Motor Vehicle documents detailing Apple’s license to test three autonomous cars. The news comes...